CEOs we can't believe are still CEOs

March 5, 2014 |Julie Balise, SFGate

Some leaders get you out of a crisis, some bury you deeper. Count these executives among the latter.

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Mark Karpeles, Mt. Gox

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Some leaders get you out of a crisis, some bury you deeper. Count these executives among the latter.

Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles is quickly becoming the face of cryptocurrency concerns. He took over the Tokyo-based exchange in 2011 and oversaw it as bitcoin's value surged. Then something went wrong. The site filed for bankruptcy protection in February 2014. Karpeles said that 750,000 bitcoins deposited by users and 100,000 bitcoins belonging to the exchange disappeared, for a loss of about $425 million. Karpeles has blamed theft through hacking for the loss. Mt. Gox is now the target of a class-action lawsuit filed in a U.S. federal court claiming that users were not sufficiently protected.

Karpeles is one of many chief executives in the spotlight -- for all the worst reasons -- recently. Let's take a look at some other CEOs who have held their grips on the top.

AP Photo/Kyodo News, File

Mark Karpeles, Mt. Gox

1of11

Some leaders get you out of a crisis, some bury you deeper. Count these executives among the latter.

Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles is quickly becoming the face of cryptocurrency concerns. He took over the Tokyo-based exchange in 2011 and oversaw it as bitcoin's value surged. Then something went wrong. The site filed for bankruptcy protection in February 2014. Karpeles said that 750,000 bitcoins deposited by users and 100,000 bitcoins belonging to the exchange disappeared, for a loss of about $425 million. Karpeles has blamed theft through hacking for the loss. Mt. Gox is now the target of a class-action lawsuit filed in a U.S. federal court claiming that users were not sufficiently protected.

Karpeles is one of many chief executives in the spotlight -- for all the worst reasons -- recently. Let's take a look at some other CEOs who have held their grips on the top.